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This study reviews the basic results of the Nairobi Conference: the secondmeeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP) in con- junction with the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 12), held in Nairobi from 6 to 17 November 2006. The ultimate decision-making body of the Convention is the Conference of the Parties (COP), which meets every year to review the implementation of the Convention. The author outlines the complexity of rules created by the Parties aiming at practical and effective implementation of the Convention.The COP adopts COP decisions and resolutions. The successive decisions taken by the COP make up a detailed set of rules. The Kyoto Protocol is the legally binding framework for action to supplement and strengthen the Convention.The Conference of the Parties serves as the 'meeting of the Parties' to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP), which also adopts COP/MOP decisions and resolutions on the implementation of its provision, published in reports of the COP/MOP. The author describes and makes comments on the decisions and resolutions adopted by the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol in Nairobi on the further implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. He comments on the impact this complex set of technical rules may have on political perspectives for further decisive action and action to be taken in time to preserve the World´s climate. The author is asking how the perspectives are for the G8-summet and the German European Union Presidency in 2007 to deal with the climate change issue to give new political guidelines for decisive action and decisions to be taken by the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol just in time for action under the Kyoto Protocol in the period after 2012 for the stabilisation of greenhouse gas emission levels in the atmosphere to be at least 25% below current levels by 2050 ,if not even more up to 50% below current levels in order to substantially reduce the risks of the worst impacts of climate change by stabilising the gas levels between 450 and 550ppm CO2 equivalent (CO2e). The current level is 430ppm CO2e today, and it is rising at more than 2ppm each year,as the Stern Review “The Economics of Climate Change” had just recalled and stimulated public attention just before the Nairobi Conference started.The author urges the summets members to set up political guidelines of credibility and transparency for further decisions to be made by the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol to negotiate their individual national interests in individual reduction shares within a commonly shared responsibility. The author furher comments on the Conference´s decisions on the special relationship between the industrial countries and developing countries,namely in Africa: focussing on the special attention the Nairobi Conference has given to the necessary principle of equitable regional and subregional distribution of clean development mechanism projects, the author outlines that the Clean Development Mechanism for promoting projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries should be operationalised within an integrative strategy of cooperation between the European Union and Africa covering projects of economic and technical cooperation using the regional structures established as Regional Economic Communities within the African Union. The autohor recalls the integrative character of security policy of that climate protection and economic development approach :as part of security policy in a wider range of meaning and real impact . He recalls the challenge that this approach does have for a necessary design and practical implementation of a Strategy of an Africa-European Union Partnership for Security and Cooperation: as African countries are directly and severest affected by the worsening of the World´s climate. Actually,the author comments on the role of the US Government facing the challenges by the worsening world climate.